Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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double up

/ˈdʌb.əl ʌp/ verb

Forms doubles up doubling up doubled up

  1. verb (transitive) To double the quantity, amount or duration of something “I'm going to double up my enlistment.”
  2. verb (poker, by extension, intransitive) To double one's amount of chips by winning an all-in pot.
  3. verb (intransitive, of a person) To bend, bend over; to fold; to stoop.
  4. verb (transitive) To cause (someone) to bend over; to beat up (someone). “I doubled him up with a swift punch to the stomach.”
  5. verb (intransitive) To have a secondary use. “This unfolding sofa doubles up as a bed.”
  6. verb (baseball, transitive) To get the second out in a double play, typically referring to getting an out by beating a runner back to a base (often by throwing) after a fly ball has been caught “Jones snared the liner and then stepped on the bag to double up the runner.”
  7. verb (intransitive) To employ double the usual resources for a particular purpose; to work in pairs.
  8. verb (intransitive, slang) To marry or live with someone; to share a living space.

Synonyms

double over double parlay

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “double up”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details